Presidential Trivia

[J. J.]

Which sitting presidents appeared on the floor of the US Senate while it was in session.

[J. J.]

Which sitting presidents appeared on the floor of the US Senate while it was in session.

Well there's Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton for obvious reasons, but I don't know if there were any others.

Neither appeared on the floor of the Senate while it was in session while either was President.

[J. J.]

I'm going to take a random guess, I'm assuming it's an early President so I will say George Washington.

You have one right.  There is another.

It was not a joint session.

[J. J.]

John Adams is the likely second then, as he tried to do things Presidentially in the same manner as Washington.  Was the purpose of their presence related to the advice and consent powers of the Senate?

John Adams is wrong.

[J. J.]

Jefferson, possibly Lincoln

Wrong and wrong.

[J. J.]

Well, it definitely wasn't Wilson.  LBJ perhaps?

No to Wilson, no to LBJ.

[J. J.]

Now I'm thinking it's either James Madison or James Monroe. How close am I J.J?

Far off!  Neither is correct.

[J. J.]

ok, I'm gonna just start naming Presidents, stop me if I'm correct.

Jackson, Van Buren, Tyler, Buchanan, Harrison, Garfield, Taft (damn, that's it, it MUST be Taft)
Seeing as he had to be agreed upon by the Senate in order to become Chief Justice. Taft is my final answer.

Your final answer is wrong and so is FDR.  Taft was appointed after he lost the presidency.

I'll give a hint later if you are still floundering around.

[J. J.]

Which sitting presidents appeared on the floor of the US Senate while it was in session.

Hmmm...I'm pretty sure JFK was sitting at some point while he was in the Senate.

Not JFK.

As for Clinton, I'm not sure the Senate was in session.  If it was, he was one of three, the other being Washington.

Hint, the President was never a member (which should eliminate a few).

[J. J.]

Presidents Elected to Congress, That didn't move up to the US Senate: Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, George H.W. Bush, James Madison, Millard Fillmore, Rutherford Hayes.

Maybe one of them?

Either was Zachary Taylor.    I didn't say that the President was ever a member of Congress.

[J. J.]

GWH Bush is correct, but I'd love to see the link (I saw it when it happened).

My question: on which building was the design for the White House based?

The Palace of Versailles?

[J. J.]

The correct answer is Leinster House.

[J. J.]

Which presidents have held public office after leaving the presidency (excluding any appointed envoy type offices).

[J. J.]

Tyler, if one counts Confederate public offices...

...and Washington, if you count his official title as Lieut. General after he left the Presidency.

I wouldn't count military rank, but Tyler is included.  So ...

JQ Adams, A. Johnson, Taft, and Tyler.

[J. J.]

FDR

But in which year?

1936?

[J. J.]

Just before being inform of FDR's death, Harry Truman, while presiding over the Senate, was writing something.  What was it?

[J. J.]

The first comic of X-Men with FDR being the inspiration for Dr. X

if not that, he was writing down the phone number of the newest intern.

No to both; the answer will make sense.

I'll give you a hint, it was a letter, but to whom?

[J. J.]

The first comic of X-Men with FDR being the inspiration for Dr. X

if not that, he was writing down the phone number of the newest intern.

No to both; the answer will make sense.

I'll give you a hint, it was a letter, but to whom?

Most likely a letter to FDR.  But another answer, although idk why this would be, writing to Eleanor.

Neither Franklin nor Eleanor, nor both is correct.

[J. J.]

To Bess or Margaret?

No, but closer.

[J. J.]

He was writing a letter to his mother.

Correct, stating that he'd speaking on the radio the next night speaking at the Jefferson Day Dinner, where "I will be followed by the President whom I'll introduce."

A bit of irony.

[J. J.]

Presumably Alben Barkley.

Not the answer that I was looking for.

Nixon did, including a late night session where he broke the gavel.

[J. J.]

Which Vice President was not sworn in in the US?

[J. J.]

Which Vice President was not sworn in in the US?

Rufus King, who was sworn in in Cuba (and may not have made it out of Cuba [certainly didn't make it to Washington] before he died).

Wrong! 

[J. J.]

Which Vice President was not sworn in in the US?

Rufus King, who was sworn in in Cuba (and may not have made it out of Cuba [certainly didn't make it to Washington] before he died).

Wrong! 

Half wrong   William Rufus King was sworn in in Cuba and died at home in Alabama.

It would have been nice had Rufus King made it the Vice Presidency in either of his two attempts.

Correct, but William and Rufus were two different politicians.

[J. J.]

In the absence of anything else...

Which sitting US President was the first to visit Africa and to which country was this first visit made?

I've no idea which President it was, but my semi-educated guess for the nation is Liberia.

My guess would be FDR and Morocco.